Neighborhood Meeting - Minutes
Thursday, August 24th 5:30 to 6:45 PM
Meeting opened in prayer and we ate Donated Domino’s Pizza!
Introductions – No new faces.
Reviewed of Prior Meeting topics
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Panama Park Youth Service –CEO Willie Green said if you have any questions, call the office in the day time, or the boy’s home in the evenings. Office: (904) 527 – 3953 Boy’s Home: (904) 619-8927
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Call JSO: (904) 630-0500
Write JSO: 501 E. Bay Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202
Report to JSO online: http://www.coj.net/departments/sheriffs-office/report-a-crime-online.aspx
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Listed items to present to Reggie Gaffney (City Council Representation)
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Sidewalks that need to be added to or repaired are listed on our Face Book page: PanamaParkNeighbors https://www.facebook.com/PanamaParkNeighbors/?ref=br_rs
These will be turned into our councilman this month.
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We listed ideas for improving the park (below) which will also be send to him this month.
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A full time employee on the premises who will plan activities for the children and keep the park used for the right reasons. We listed many activity suggestions.
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More picnic tables / benches etc
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Bathrooms cleaned and fixed (and maintained)
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New basketball goals / Volleyball Court
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3rd Panama Park Come Together – Date set for June 2nd, 2018 (first Sat. after school)
We need volunteers to help in the areas of marketing, financial, food, activities, equipment, permitting, and planning a program that will be fun and make it easy to meet all our neighbors. Please notify Roxie (cell: 904-515-7944) or Tom (904-899-2352)
Neighborhood Meetings are now to be every other month Next Month’s Meeting Aug. 24th
Announcements and Upcoming Events
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Please sign up for nextdoor.com – we have over 100 Panama Park neighbors connected. To Join, visit: nextdoor.com/join/EQWTSX
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Sherriff’s Watch Meetings 7:00 PM Third Thursdays (Sept. 21st) Carolina Apartments.
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Next Month’s Meeting Oct. 26th (trying to secure the Senior Citizen Center)